Pacific Coast Souvenir, 1888.

3. AROUND THE BIG BEND. (On the Shasta Route.) At the
eighteenth crossing of the Sacramento River, the ruggedness of the country
has made it necessary for the road and the river to part company, and in the
climb around the Big Bend some of the most picturesque canon scenery of the
whole country is displayedsuch as the Sacramento Canon, the River, Scott
Mountains, etc. By the bluffs of basalt and banks of lava to be seen here.
one realizes his near approach to the old volcano. Indeed, these are the foothills
of Shasta.

4. THE "SOLANO." The
transfer-boat "Solano," plying
and carrying railroad trains between Port Costa and Benicia, over the Straits
of Carquinez, is said to be the largest craft of her class ever built. Length,
424 feet; extreme width over guards, 116 feet; registered tonnage, 3541 tons.